Euskaltel-Euskadi's Victor Cabedo killed in training crash in Spain

Local report says 23-year-old was in collision with car on a descent and ended up in ravine

Victor Cabedo (picture Euskaltel Euskadi)

Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Victor Cabedo, who rode in last week’s Tour of Britain, has been killed in a crash in training today, reports the Spanish website Biciciclismo.

The website reports that the fatal incident took place on the CV200 road between Almedíjar and Ain, a little to the north of Valencia.

Cabedo, aged 23, was riding on a descent - according to Biciclismo, the road was in a "poor state" - when he struck a car, the cyclist ending up in a ravine.

It is not clear at the moment whether the road surface may have been a factor in the incident, nor the sequence of events that caused Cabedo to collide with car.

The cyclist joined Euskaltel-Euskadi this season after spending last year at UCI Continental level with Orbea, and made his Grand Tour debut in May this yeat during the Giro d’Italia.

During last year's Giro, Leopard Trek rider Wouter Weylandt died when he crashed on a descent and later the same month Spanish rider Xavier Tondo of Movistar was killed in a freak accident involving a garage door as he prepared to go on a training ride.

Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.

As an aside: Gkam84, you can't just take pics off the net and use them. No idea who owns the copyright on the bikezona.com pic and the flickr pic is marked as not for commercial use

I know you can't just take pictures and use them. The flickr is none commercial. I wouldn't say this article was for commercial gain though. Its a news story. You just have to attribute the original owner?

Also as its out there in the public domain. They really can't put claims to it. If you look on google, there are a few instances of that same photo. I just traced it to its origins

"Public domain" is one of the most misunderstood concepts of copyright. And your definition of it shows you misunderstand it too. Public domain means the copyright has expired or been forfeited, not just that it's "on the internet".

The CC non-commercial licence also has a broader remit than you think.

Anyway, this is all off topic on a tragic story, so I'll leave it there.

Gkam, you may not be fully informed about UK copyright law. road.cc is a commercial site and using a photo marked as copyright or not for repro etc is the same as lifting someone's article for financial gain. If a commercial website used a photo or other work of mine without permission they would receive a snotty letter and invoice post haste.

It's sad that another young athlete has been lost so soon after the accident involving Nevin Spence.

Also Gkam, have to agree with the others, as a part time photographer in the past where one of my images has been lifted from my Flickr page or website I've issued take down notices. It's the law, just because an image is on the internet doesn't make it free (its exactly the same as downloading movies/music without paying) and giving a photo credit doesn't make it 'alright'. Sadly many people don't understand this including the odd major newspaper...

At the finish area of stage 1 to Norwich in the Tour of Britain, as Victor arrived to the team bus, he saw my 3 years old son waiting for the cyclist and gave him his botle. Victor proved to be a really nice guy without saying a word. Since then that orange botle has become my son's proud treasure. Obviusly I'm not going to try to explain to him the sad news coz he wouldn't understand but as he was using the botle this morning I asked him "Do you remember who gave you this bottle?" He replyed "The nice orange cyclist dad". Heartbreaking.